Friday, March 18, 2011

accepting what is does not mean giving up

but i didn't succumb to the siren calls of the chocolate chip cookies i made.

huzzah!

(i actually went and gave them all away. be very impressed.)

the problem with finishing all of my homework on a thursday morning is that i have nothing to do now until wednesday. which is very nice and all... but i need to find out something else to do with myself other than cook! i think an adventure around town is in order soon.

i have to get rid of my strawberry yogurt in the fridge, because i am pretty sure that it is on the downhill slide here in the next little bit. i'm gonna try this recipe (i usually don't even bother posting until after i have tried a recipe and it works. this could be a little risky!)

strawberry yogurt banana bread

ingredients:

2 cups all purpose flour

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1 cup sugar

1/4 cup butter (softened)

2 large eggs

3 mashed bananas

1/3 cup strawberry yogurt

1 tsp vanilla yogurt

oil to grease the bread pan

directions:

1- preheat the oven to 350. grease your bread pan.

2- beat the sugar and butter until you cream it.

3- add eggs one at a time.

4- in a separate bowl, mash the bananas and mix in the yogurt and vanilla, mis into the egg/butter/sugar.

5- in another bowl, mix the flour, baking soda and salt.

6- mix all together until smooth.

7- pour into bread pan.

8- bake for one hour at 350.

9- enjoy! (well, i'm crossing my fingers at this point!)

i think i'm going to try these babies too if i have some leftover yogurt. (i love scones!)

in honor of saint patty's day yesterday: (and because green is such a fantastic color!)

our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. it is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
we ask ourselves, who am i to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? actually, who are you NOT to be?
you are a child of god. your playing small doesn't serve teh world. there's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. we are all meant to shine, as children do. we are born to make manifest the glory of god that is within us.
it's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.
and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
marianne williamson (21st century spiritual leader)

ya wanna find somethin?

ain't it the truth!

don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. ~bertolt brecht

to be nobody but yourself - in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings

life is pretty simple: you do some stuff. most fails. some works. you do more of what works. if it works big, others quickly copy it. then you do something else. the trick is the doing something else. ~leonardo da vinci

in three words, i can sum up everything i've learned about life: it goes on. ~robert frost

fortune and love befriend the bold. ~ovid

don't worry if you have built your castles in the air. they are where they should be. now put the foundations under them. ~henry david thoreau

there is nothing more attractive than a nice smile.

~charles m. schulz

even if you cannot sing well, sing. ~rebbe nachman

when you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside. ~wayne dyer

carry yourself like a queen and you'll attract a king.

make room for the new you. ~edward w. smith

i read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. it never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ~anna quindlen

write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. ~ralph waldo emerson

you look up at the sky and you cry for a star! you know you'll never get it... and then one night you look down - and there it is - shining in your hand! ~lizzie curry "the rainmaker"